What are you doing or watching to get your mind off of the pandemic?

Bad horror films, you tube music videos, porn.

Watching high school wrestling videos and browsing the photos. What a wasted season this has turned into.

Dusting my figurines.

Playing Solitaire, with actual cards on my dining table. Staring at my iPad and the tv has fried my brain.

I'm chanting an anti-coronavirus mantra right now.

[quote]The prayer asks spirits in the earth, air, and those among people to have mercy on humans.

[quote]“To all the spirits, those in the earth, as well as in the air, and those congregating in this place / May all the spirits be kind / Listen to the exultations of the Triratna that I declare with respect,” the prayer begins.

I'm not doing this purposely to get my mind off the pandemic, but it's sort of happening by accident. I'm losing my concept of day and night. I take two or three naps every day and don't sleep a lot at night, and at times I find myself going into a kind of fugue state in which I don't know what day or time it is and nothing outside my consciousness seems real.

At moments, it feels like a very mild version of what prisoners in solitary confinement must experience.

Streaming the greatest rock station in the solar system, Classic Rock Planet (classicrockplanet.com). Rock from the '60s 70s and 80s. Rock on and bop til ya drop!

Bad horror, playing monopoly, vodka.

Rick Steves travel videos; yes, Rick can be very tiresome at times, but his goofy optimism is entertaining & brightens my spirits.

Mary Berry's Country House Secrets!

Fortunately, I'm not near any outbreaks, which I believe are about 200-300 miles away, but that may change. It's life as usual for now. I paint, I read, I watch a movie. When I see a man out on the street with a cart, intoning "Bring out your dead," I'll be a bit more concerned.

Well, isn't that remarkable, OP? You're about to WATCH porn, and I'm about to MAKE porn!

I'm watching Netflix.

Watching mini-series Generation Kill about the taking of Fallujah. Sounds gruesome but lots of humor and lots of GREAT looking USMC guys in silky shorts!

I'm making sure I take a walk every morning. Where I live I have found a 2.75 mile path through the neighborhood. It's been nice because others seems to be doing the same. Just seeing others out and about - even if everyone is maintaining a distance - has really helped my mind. Walking past one house seeing a woman working in her garden was a comforting bit of normalcy.

Life is continuing, albeit differently right now, but just seeing that has helped my mental state in all this.

Last night we watched the director's cut of 'Doctor Sleep'. After the credits rolled, I had a terrible stomach-churning moment when I "remembered" the state of things.

Otherwise, walking the dog, doing yoga, reading. I have a lot of spring cleaning and home repairs waiting for whenever the weather turns warmer. Until then, maybe I'll start a journal, though that seems a touch pretentious.

Trying not to die, same as everyone.

I'm watching the 1978 world gymnastics women's AA. Nadia is competing and I have yet to find out if she wins!

Most importantly, I've dropped the Coronavirus Freakout thread from my watchlist. While it's important to stay informed every day, basking in constant fear and panic will help no one.

Cleaning closets

I ordered a Zero-G lounge chair for my balcony. I hardly ever go out there usually. But I figure I'll feel less cooped up if I go outside to read and maybe nap. Also, I might avoid a vitamin D deficiency.

Call The Midwife. Fuck someone in the ear for recommending it because I have ugly cried during a few episodes. I'm also playing those fucking match 3 games on my iPad...I have three scripts to finish!!!

I’m going to start doing more meth and work on taking my boyfriend’s whole hand.

Trying to get some sleep but getting very little.

Playing hide and seek with the neighborhood flies

Watching Gilligan's Island on MeTV.

Playing with my pussy cat. She needs pampering.

I should be cleaning the house, but I am not feeling it.

Eating a lot, cooking, looking at recipes.

I just watched the entire season of Toy Boy on Netflix. I liked it.

Brady Bunch on MeTV right now. That Jan was such a selfish cunt.

Last night I watched [italic]Wait Until Dark[/italic] with Miss Audrey Hepburn after not having seen it since I was a kid in the early '70s.

ah - working from home. Distance teaching. My god, deans of the lady gender are not fun right now.

Mixed drinks and salty snack, potato chips are of the moment. And baking, lots of baking. Chocolate chip cookies, Banana bread, blueberry bran muffins and homemade pumpernickel bread for all the corned beef I have leftover from our cancelled St. Patrick’s day party.

This:

[quote]www.p0rnhub.com/stayhome

change zero (0) to oh (o).

Cumdump bottom for horny bored tops...

The URL

The other day I saw there was a porn video entitled “The Last Two Men on earth after Coronavirus” or something like that ... might have to give it a watch later today.

Of all things, I watched all 3 Austin Powers movies.

What the hell you people think I'm doing?

r14 mmm Skarsgård

I'm about to start a Beverly Hills 90210 marathon. The original of course.

I’m watching Tiger King after reading about it on another thread. Thank you DL!

K-pop, cleaning my place, taking care of my cat and rabbit, organizing my food, DL, Netflix YouTube Kocowa

I'm reading Woody's book.

Shopping online for the latest fashions.

Eating, sewing and avoiding housework.

Napping, 2021 vacation planning, continuing professional ed via the web. Researching and outlining book ideas, batching and freezing leftovers, grocery shopping online. Yoga. Reorganizing my CDs — previously by genre, now by my geographic location/life event when listened to, followed by genre, and then alphabetically by artist. Deciding what to plant next month.

Catch up with our Apocalyptic Movie Marathon!

[quote]Playing Solitaire, with actual cards on my dining table.

Until dawn? With a deck of 51?

Are you smoking cigarettes and watching "Captain Kangaroo" as well?

Making my way through all 5 series of Six Feet Under. I'd forgotten how much I missed those characters in my life.

You're lucky, R50 - saw it all too recently to re-watch.

I wouldn't say I ever miss those characters. I like many of them very much. The visiting actors are often especially good.

I'm in the middle of binge-watching the old series Dead Like Me. I had forgotten how much I loved that one! Two seasons and a movie. I'm halfway through the second season...

And actor Callum Blue is providing definite fodder for my other pastime...

Watching a lot You Tube, it's a fount of entertainment. Reading everyday. I'll soon be taking my dog on hikes on lesser known trails.

Strategizing alternative ways to keep my businesses afloat during this time and in the aftermath.

Jane Austen movies.

You fat whores should read this:

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Nothing. Doesn't bother me. I live in the country and have limited interaction with others. I expect to get infected at some stage.

Catching up on Crusoe episodes! I just love this little wiener!

Westworld and Curb Your Enthusiasm

I'm looking fwd to seeing Tim & Heidi again on Making the Cut this Friday.

Elder gay here, recently retired. After contemplating my demise (by virus or not, it's going to happen at some point), I decided I would make things easier on my executor and heirs by organizing and cleaning out file cabinets and labeling what's left. I've also been cleaning out closets and a giant "junk drawer" that odd bits get tossed into. It's been very therapeutic. Yesterday I gathered up about 20 years of miscellaneous power cords, phone cables, transformers, chargers, etc and tossed them.

r50 My all time fav show of the 00's. It has aged amazingly well, unlike some of the other stuff from the same period.

r61 Therapeutic as well as very thoughtful of you. Everyone wins!

Watching Man in the High Castle, not sure why I'm bothering, it's dreck.

I’m watching Schitt’s Creek from the beginning but I *really* want to watch Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, Celeb Fit Club, The Surreal Life and if it hasn’t been incinerated by the powers that be The Swan!

I have direct tv and get basic channels but for whatever reason for the last 2 weeks Ive been getting about 30 movie channels as well. They ususally do it every couple months as a promotion but it may be they are doing it now as a customer service for everybody at home.........but anyway I am right now watching once upon a time in hollywood. I saw it last summer but its worth watching again. I am spending alot of time watching cnn and msnbc but in the last few days Ive had enuf. Also watching some netflix

R61, I'm doing the same thing. Deep uncluttering inside and yard work outside. I'm not rushing through it, though. It looks like I'm going to be holed up in my house for months.

It is easier that I don't have anyone to inherit my stuff, so a lot of heirlooms and family history documents I've saved for years are going straight into the garbage.

Also, I've deactivated or deleted all my social media accounts. DL is the last place I still come to.

I watched Taxi Driver again yesterday for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I like it less now than I used to. Not as impressed with Jodie Foster's performance as I once was. Ditto Cybill Shepherd. De Niro, though, wow. So hot and so fucking good.

Also started watching Last Picture Show, which I used to think was one of the great ones, and the inconsistencies were so off-putting I turned it off after only a few minutes.

Surfing as the sun comes up before the work conference calls start at 8.

Day drinking from 11.

And a ridiculous amount of wanking.

When I'm not datalounging, I'm reading a lot. I'm 92% of the way through the new Harlan Coben novel, The Boy from the Woods. Very up-to-the-minute with Heather Crimstein this go-round, at the intersection of Trumplike wealth, the internet lives of teens, and a kidnapping or two (or not), all taking place in a fictitious Bergen County town.

Brushing my pussy's hair.

I'm in gardening zone 6b and have been watching my roses and astilbes for signs of life. So far so good.

I’ve gotten hooked on British panel shows such as 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, Q.I., and would I lie to you.

I really liked this one!

I’m about 5 years late but I started watching Poldark on Amazon Prime. It’s decent so far, the plot isn’t incredibly gripping or anything but Aidan Turner is beautiful so it’s a pleasant distraction watch.

Downton Abbey

I saw Aidan Turner in a play in London not long ago. Damn, he was fine! Great actor, too.

Just rewatched Bridesmaids and Im eating too damned much

Running everyday. And I thought I hated running.

Watching all the spring blossoms without distraction because people are distancing themselves from each other.

Limit news to 30 min a day from sources that have demonstrated they can find something new and meaningful to share.

Glad I immediately unfollowed those who were posting about COVID-19 18x a day when this started. Also immediately unfollowed anyone who used the term "flatten the curve".

Instahoes posting shirtless selfies while quarantined. Those sluts in Spain and Brazil must be dying for some action now.

And of course, Datalounge.

I watched season 1 of Midsommar Murders on Britbox and I thought it was lame.

Starting my own business, after being let go from my job. Skyping for hours with my online sex friend. Working out in my den. Enjoying the DL bitchery.

Good luck with your business, R79.

I watch episodes of Snapped. They're all bad and riveting. Also I went to the netflix comedy specials' wikipedia page and am downloading a shit ton of them. Can't wait for Oliver and Maher to come back. Also thank God for Stern & Robin.

Everything else I usually love watching I hate now...

I'm used to the whole working from home thing, as I've worked from home for myself for years. I haven't been on a set schedule in forever, but I do need to get out of my house once in a while for sanity's sake. I miss being able to invite friends over for card game night, hit up the movies with them, or dine out. Also, it kind of sucks having to limit my trips to the grocery store - as I often like to make dinner on a whim, not be forced to use what I've already got on hand for weeks at a time.

I guess the bright side to that though, is not having to deal with all the assholes currently at the stores being rotten to the core mean to one another.

Watched No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. and catching up on other Amazon Prime movies I have never seen.

Back to speed walking the interior circular street of my condo complex. Expect to be up to 6 miles a day soon. Losing weight although doing a lot more generally healthy cooking. Made wholewheat, low sugar banana bread, sweet & sour chicken, bourbon chicken. Hope Amazon Prime Fresh keeps delivering fresh mozzarella, mangoes, avocados, oranges, tomatoes bread.

Twitter keeps me up with the headlines.

Ozark Series 3, Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Covid updates on YouTube, Dr John Campbell’s daily updates on YouTube, old movies, reading, cleaning, popping edibles and cleaning some more.

I’m not really affected by it. I’m retired. I’m on Soc Sec & get Medicare, so I won’t be getting a check from the govt. My husband is a shrink & still goes to his office. He’s essential personnel & people want to see him in person. They’re going stir crazy, they look forward to going out & seeing their shrink. We’re not suffering financially, but my husband lost a lot of seminars he was going to give & a few tv interviews.

I just wish the weather was better. Landscapers are only essential if they’re mowing or cutting brush back to prevent habitant for ticks. Every winter I let my property go to seed, literally. I leave all the dead stuff up for birds to eat or use for cover. I put leaves in my garden. I let the orange pine needles pile up. I don’t have the lawn fertilized till spring. Then in April my landscapers come in, prune everything, rake, sweep, weed, trim, fertilizer, mulch, paint & the place is transformed.

That’s not going to happen this year.

My landscaper was supposed to fix a leak in my shed roof, reshingle the shed roof, paint the shed door he replaced last year, paint the front porch he was supposed to paint last year, paint the fence he was supposed to paint last year & extend my garden beds by 1 foot that he was supposed to do last year.

I’ll probably never see him again. He takes care of huge estates & squeezes us in during a good year because we gave him lots of work when he first started. But he’s going to be backed up for years now.

I’m disabled & my husband works all the time. We’re screwed, landscape-wise.

oh my god who cares r85 about the fucking landscape ?? People are dying

Does anyone want me to post a thread for you if you cannot? Post here and I will do it. We used to do this a lot back in the day and it seems like a good time to revive the practice.

R86 Seriously.

Just find another lansdcaper. Or let it fucking go one season.

Problem solved.

R85 I hear you. We're half way through a gym-sauna-indoor-pool and guest chalet at our place in Saas-Fee, but they stopped working last week. My neighbors had their Filipino staff smuggled in via private jet and things look tip top over there. I guess we're too low on the totem pole, so probably we'll spend most of the summer in Marbella where we put in low impact green landscaping. But will Spain even be open? Grrrr!

Don't forget Elijah Wood's new horror movie / pitch black comedy, COME TO DADDY.

Bring a tolerance for a little violence and you will shit yourself laughing!

Thanks R80!

[quote]oh my god who cares [R85] about the fucking landscape ?? People are dying

oh my god r86 get the fuck out of a thread titled "What are you doing or watching to get your mind off of the pandemic?" Go back to your panic thread

I totally care about my landscaping. My house looks like serial killer central. It gives me anxiety. More anxiety than the virus because we’re both home all the time now, only going out to get essentials. I wash my hands & use sanitizer wipes, follow all precautions.......so I’m not worried about catching the virus.

Watching season 2 of Modus (a Swedish detective series) and A Place to Call Home (an Australian drama series) on PBS.

Yesterday I watched Sense and Sensibility on Showtime for the first time in a couple of decades - and Edward's proposal teared me up just as much as it did the first time around.

Interestingly, Greg Wise is in both S&S (as John Willoughby) and Modus (as a special advisor to the US president).

In Modus, he wears pants tight enough to enable me to really appreciate his ass.

R86 I do, in fact several of us on DL fuck’n care you ungrateful POS. We want beauty in our final days.

R90 OMG, Frodo has gone all fuck’n creepy horror on us.

I'm working from home but I stop every day at 2:00 to have my lunch while I watch "Bewitched" on Antenna TV.

Triple anal porn

R87 can you start a thread please?

What streaming service do you recommend for a 60 day splurge? Since we are home I need to refresh my viewing options. What do you think is worth the $

Recently I've been binge watching Midsomer Murders episodes on You Tube. Diverting, funny, and I would Kill to live in any of the locations they use....

I'm doing a deadline-free modified version of The Marie Kondo Method. Yes, it's a very thorough purge, but I'm not addressing every single thing one at a time and asking myself it it still resonates with me.